1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

1971 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union
Silver	Gerhard Sperling  East Germany
Bronze	Paul Nihill  United Kingdom

Results

Final

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:27:20.2	CR
	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:27:29.0
	Paul Nihill	United Kingdom	1:27:34.8
4	Peter Frenkel	East Germany	1:27:52.8
5	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	1:28:56.8
6	Phil Embleton	United Kingdom	1:29:31.6
7	Boris Yakovlev	Soviet Union	1:29:49.4
8	Yevgeniy Ivchenko	Soviet Union	1:31:32.2
9	Bernhard Kannenberg	West Germany	1:32:06.4
10	Pasquale Busca	Italy	1:32:44.2
11	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:33:15.4
12	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:33:54.6
13	Charles Sutherland	United Kingdom	1:34:15.0
14	Andor Antal	Hungary	1:35:09.6
15	Sándor Fórián	Hungary	1:35:24.2
16	Kåre Moen	Norway	1:35:28.2
17	Jan Ornoch	Poland	1:35:33.4
18	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1:36:17.2
19	Hans Tenggren	Sweden	1:36:54.8
20	Wilfried Wesch	West Germany	1:37:39.4
21	Jan Rolstad	Norway	1:39:14.8
22	Kjell Lund	Norway	1:40:28.6

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

References